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Humus
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ISBN: 8862981325 8889550716 Year: 2010 Publisher: Milano : Morellini,

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While researching in Nantes, a port city enriched by the slave trade, celebrated French novelist Fabienne Kanor came across a chilling report written in 1774 by the commander of a slave ship, Le Soleil. Captain Louis Mosnier recounted the loss of valuable "cargo" when fourteen African women escaped from the ship's hold to leap overboard rather than face enslavement. Half of them drowned or were eaten by sharks. From this tragic incident, Kanor has composed a powerful, polyphonic novel in which each woman tells her own vivid story. Their disparate lives from differing cultures, conditions, and perspectives intersect through their violent mistreatment, profound sense of disorientation, and collective act of resistance. These intertwined narratives reveal the brutalizing effects of slavery, not only on the victim but also on the oppressor: the master can no more escape its dehumanizing effects than can the slave.


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L'evade de K...
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ISBN: 128311402X 9786613114020 9956579335 9956579939 9956579688 9789956579938 9789956579686 9956579084 9789956579082 Year: 2011 Publisher: Bamenda, Cameroon [East Lansing, Mich.] Langaa Research & Publishing CIG Distributed in N. America by Michigan State University Press

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L'EvadÈ de K... derives from a true story. The story begins with a flash back showing the hero in jail. Cegalo, an adolescent, lives in a difficult family. His father is a kind of headsman unable to educate his son. He strongly believes in the virtue of violence as a means of educating. The son ends up in delinquency. Robbery of tourists, especially white men is his favourite activity. After a hold-up, he is arrested and kept in custody. Unable to control him, the prison authorities decide to send him to the famous Prison of K...This prison is the most secure of the country and nobody has ever


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African literature and the future
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ISBN: 2869786727 9782869786721 9782869786332 2869786336 Year: 2015 Publisher: Dakar CODESRIA, Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa

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Alt 40 : African Literature Comes of Age.

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Explores and interrogates the many and diverse perspectives of the new frontiers of African literary studies.


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Journal of the African Literature Association.
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ISSN: 21674744 21674736 Year: 2007 Publisher: Philadelphia, PA : African Literature Association [Edmonton, Alta.] : [African Literature Association]

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Counter discourse in African literature
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ISBN: 9783603744 9789783603745 9783708562 9789783708563 9789783708563 1322329842 Year: 2014 Publisher: Oxford, [England] : African Library of Critical Writing,

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This volume charts the widening frontiers of black literary aesthetics using the prose and dramatic fictions of writers from Africa and the African diaspora. The chapters come in two interactive phases of current critical discourses involving rejoinders from past-present concerns and issues of cultural and contemporary modernity. These studies stress the argument that African literature is hardly discussed outside contemporary history and that the reason for the apparent disconnection among groups in Africa and the diaspora can be traced to the disparate elements within the continent and diasp


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Post colonial identities
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ISBN: 9783603736 9789783603738 9789783708570 9783708570 1322329834 Year: 2014 Publisher: Oxford, [England] : African Library of Critical Writing,

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Post Colonial Identities revisits issues regarding the newer literature within the expansive African heritage of diverse regional and national groupings. It is poised at substantiating the uniformity of Africa in terms of literary and cultural movements, and lending some inter-disciplinary insights on the whole body of literature through twentieth century history.


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New black and African writing.
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ISBN: 9783703641 9789783703643 9789783703636 9783703633 Year: 2015 Publisher: [Nigeria?] African Library of Critical Writing

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New black and African writing Vol. 2 is our concluding edition of a series that has featured many critical entries and reviews on canonical African fiction, poetry, drama and non-fiction. This second edition explores intricacies of relationships and associations, the recurrent tropes for the interpretation and understanding of historical connections, and the shaping of thought brought into fictional and cultural renditions that are evolving and continually reassessed although around the periphery of older canons. The quest for a meaningful heuristic for approaching contemporary arts is almost totally redefined by the contributions of eminent scholars of our time whose balancing and correspondence create room for complementarity of values and toward cultural understanding and value appreciation in contemporary society.


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Indigenous heritage in african literature
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ISBN: 9783703668 9783703617 9789783703667 Year: 2015 Publisher: Nigeria, West Africa : African Library of Critical Writing,

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Paul Laurence Dunbar : poet
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ISBN: 0870677845 Year: 1993 Publisher: Los Angeles, CA : Melrose Square,

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